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The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) provides technology research and testing tools based on standards developed by the STAC Benchmark Council. The STAC Benchmark Council, a consortium of more than 400 financial institutions and more than 50 vendor organizations, develops benchmark standards useful to financial organizations. The STAC-M3 Benchmark suite is the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time-series tick data.
The STAC-M3 Benchmarks are split into two distinct time-series market datasets, Antuco and Kanaga; benchmarks are run separately against each database.
STAC-M3 uses synthetic data modeled on NYSE TAQ (U.S. equities) and composed of high-volume and low-volume symbols in proportions based on observed NYSE data. The key metric within the benchmark is query response time from when a client thread initiates a request to full completion of the request. Tests include various operations typical of a tick database. Tests scale from a single client and single thread to multiple clients and multiple threads and can be heavy on storage I/O or compute, or both.